Presentations:
2006 DESIGN SCIENCE LAB PUBLIC EVENTS
UNC-Asheville
$5 Suggested Donation
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The Design Science Lab is a 10-day intensive workshop that employs the pioneering planning methodology of Buckminster Fuller in the design of comprehensive anticipatory solutions to local and global problems. For full details, see http://www.designsciencelab.org
Thursday, July 20, 7-9 pm
The Legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller
UNC Asheville, Robinson Hall 125
Learn how architect, engineer, artist, inventor, and poet Buckminster Fuller applied the design science methodologies to open new frontiers in art and science.
Friday, July 21, 7-9 pm
Southern Appalachian Region in the Global Context: Energy, the Economy, and Sustainability
UNC Asheville, Humanities Lecture Hall
Learn how increased efficiency and the shift to sustainable energy solutions will increase southern Appalachia’s health and wealth.
Saturday, July 22, 7-9 pm
Southern Appalachian Region in the Global Context: The Environment as a System
UNC Asheville, Humanities Lecture Hall
Participate in an interactive systems thinking mapping session to understand the environment as a system and how southern Appalachian biosphere is affected by land use, lifestyle choices, community planning, and other factors.
Sunday, July 23rd, 6:30-8pm
Be the World: Seeing and Experiencing the Whole Earth
UNC Asheville, Health and Fitness Center
Come experience the planet's largest map of the whole Earth used as a tool for visualizing the most important facts and dynamics of the world.
Tuesday, July 25, 7-9 pm
Visualizing and Communicating BIG Ideas
UNC Asheville, Robinson Hall 125
Learn the importance of skillful design, compelling visualization, and an understanding of communication theory to teaching about complex ideas.
Friday, July 28, 4-6 pm
Public Presentation of Design Science Lab Strategies
UNC Asheville, Humanities Lecture Hall
Come join the 2006 Design Science Lab participants as they present their strategies and explain how YOU can get involved in designing a better future.
The Asheville Design Science Lab is presented by BigPictureSmallWorld and the Buckminster Fuller Institute and sponsored locally by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, National Environmental Modeling & Analysis Center (NEMAC) and the UNC Asheville Department of Environmental Studies. Media sponsorship by Mountain Xpress. For information or to apply, visithttp://designsciencelab.org
Full Presentation Details:
The Legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller
Thursday, July 20, 7-9 pm
UNC Asheville, Robinson Hall 125
Learn how architect, engineer, artists, inventor, and poet Buckminster Fuller applied the design science methodologies to open new frontiers in art, science, and sustainability.
Screening:
The World of R. Buckminster Fuller (1974)
This 85 minute documentary by Robert Snyder has been called by the L.A. Free Press, "The definitive, synthesized lecture by one of the great teachers and minds of our time transcribed in sight and sound the archives of posterity." Includes footage of Dymaxion Car, Dymaxion House, the Montreal Dome and Fuller's summer home in Maine.
Presenter:
Medard Gabel, BigPictureSmallWorld (www.bigpicturesmallworld.com)
Medard Gabel is the former executive director of the World Game Institute, a UN-affiliated NGO. He worked with Buckminster Fuller for 12 years where he learned the power and utility of whole systems thinking, global perspectives and a good sense of humor. Mr. Gabel has been designing, developing, and delivering experiential educational programs since 1970. He is currently the CEO of BigPictureSmallWorld and BigPicture Consulting, and is the author of six books on global problems, resources and strategies, the global energy situation, the global food situation, the U.S. food system, planning, and multinational corporations.
Southern Appalachian Region in the Global Context: Energy, the Economy, and Sustainability
Friday, July 21, 7-9 pm
UNCA, Humanities Lecture Hall
Learn how increased efficiency and the shift to sustainable energy solutions will increase southern Appalachians health and wealth.
Presenters:
Ned Ryan Doyle, Southern Energy and Environment Expo (www.seeexpo.com)
Ned Doyle has 30 years experience in renewable energy applications and environmental activism, promoting a transitional shift based on proven technologies incorporating sustainable economics. Board Member of the NC Sustainable Energy Association, Coordinator of the 6th Annual S.E.E. Expo, Producer/Host of WNCW 88.7 FM "Our Southern Community" & WPVM 103.5 FM "Moving Mountains", he focuses on the interrelationships of energy, the environment and economics at the local and regional levels.
David Wallace, NC State Energy Office (www.energync.net)
David Wallace is the Western representative of the North Carolina State Energy Office, where he promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency programs and works with State agencies and universities to help them achieve their target of 20% energy reduction. Before coming to Asheville he was a clean technology advisor at the International Energy Agency in Paris, a Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and an energy technology policy specialist and research scientist in the UK Department of Energy. He is the author of "Sustainable Industrialization" and "Environmental Policy and Industrial Innovation", has a background in physics and oceanography, and has been a consultant to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Industrial Development Organisation and UN Institute for Training and Research.
Bill Fleming, Shelter Tech (www.sheltertech.com)
Bill Fleming has engineer and MBA degrees and is an interested amateur in anthropology, history, and meditation. He is owns Shelter Tech, an energy-system design-build firm, and is a co-founder of Westwood cohousing community in Asheville NC, an award-winning eco-neighborhood. His interests include the ecosystem and climate change, peak oil and gas, the design, construction, and operation of eco neighborhoods and villages as components of sustainable cities, and the social organization and governance of intentional communities in a post-carbon and ‘re-localized’ world.
Southern Appalachian Region in the Global Context: The Environment as a System
Saturday, July 22, 7-9 pm
UNC Asheville, Humanities Lecture Hall
Participate in an interactive systems thinking mapping session to understand the environment as a system and how southern Appalachian biosphere is affected by land use, lifestyle choices, community planning, and other factors.
Presenters:
Drew Jones, Sustainability Institute (www.sustainer.org)
Mr. Jones is the southeast representative for the Sustainability Institute. He specializes in solving environmental, human health and energy problems for businesses and communities. He's an MIT graduate with a background in engineering and systems modeling.
Dee Eggers, UNC Asheville Department of Environmental Studies and WNC Alliance (www.wnca.org)
Dr. Eggers' background spans environmental science, public health, and regulation. She focuses on policies that improve the environmental performance of institutions and policies that create sustainable and restorative economies. She is a member of the N.C. Legislative Commission on Climate Change.
Be the World: Seeing and Experiencing the Whole Earth
Sunday, July 23rd, 6:30-8pm
UNC Asheville, Health and Fitness Center
Global Immersion: the planet's largest map of the whole Earth used as a tool for visualizing the most important facts and dynamics of the world.
Presenters:
Medard Gabel, BigPictureSmallWorld (www.bigpicturesmallworld.com)
Jim Hausman, WorldDay (http://www.sand-box.org)
Jim and Medard have collaborated to organize recent WorldDay events in France, Switzerland, and Colorado. WorldDay is a full-day experiential learning simulation in which up to 100 participants "inhabit" a basketball-court-sized map of the world, while using it as a timeline that runs from the Big Bang until now. Asheville participants will inhabit the map in an accelerated version of the timeline, and then explore other ways that maps like these can transform an abstract idea such as the spread of a virus into a sensate kinesthetic learning experience.
Visualizing and Communicating BIG Ideas
Tuesday, July 25, 7-9 pm
UNC Asheville, Robinson Hall 125
Learn the importance of skillful design, compelling visualization, and an understanding of communication theory to teaching about complex ideas. Come prepared to explore omnidirectional ideas and the geometry of thinking.
Presenters:
Kurt Przybilla, Tetratops (www.tetratops.com), Bamboo Institute (www.thebambooinstitute.org), and Nanotoons (www.molecularium.com)
Kurt Przybilla is an inventor, educator, writer, producer and self-described “Positive Futurologist”. He invented Tetra Tops®, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin. These award-winning toys have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. Kurt is the writer and producer of Molecularium™, a new National Science Foundation funded animation for digital (planetarium) domes that teaches children about atoms and molecules. In 2005, he founded The Bamboo Institute to develop innovative ways to utilize bamboo to help solve the wide range of problems facing our planet.
David McConville, The Elumenati (www.elumenati.com), Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (www.blackmountaincollege.org)
David McConville is a media artist and researcher specializing in the development of dome-based display technologies. He is co-founder of The Elumenati, a full service design and engineering firm specializing in the development and deployment of immersive visualization environments and experiences. David is an active Board member of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, where Buckminster Fuller built his first geodesic dome.
Ben Mack, Independent Marketing Consultant
Ben Mack spent three days interviewing Bucky when he was twelve for Richard Brennaman's Fuller's Earth: A Day With Bucky & The Kids. Today, Ben is a recovery advertising executive. Harnessing his experience in Big Media, Ben explains how mass media really works…yes, he can do this. He's been a Senior Vice President at BBDO and is considered a branding guru, lecturing to entrepreneurs on branding. Ben will then take us through the basics of branding architecture and how we can apply these ideas for SpaceShip Earth.
Public Presentation of Design Science Lab Strategies
Friday, July 28, 4-6 pm
UNC Asheville, Humanities Lecture Hall
Come join the 2006 Design Science Lab participants as they present their strategies and explain how YOU can get involved in designing a better future.
Presenters:
The 2006 Asheville Design Science Lab participants
